Facebook Open Sources Its Servers and Data Centers — Facebook has shared the nitty-gritty details of its server and data center design, taking its commitment to openness to a new level for the industry by sharing its infrastructure secrets much like it has shared its software code.

Apple Blows us Away with Smart Bezel Details! — Apple has been teasing us with various smart bezel patents over the last year but a new patent application revealed by the USPTO today, provides us with how they're intending to implement this feature and the details will blow you away.

Apple to release iOS 4.3.2 in the next two weeks — We've just been told by one of our Apple ninjas that the company is working on another iOS 4.3.x release: iOS 4.3.2. It's said to include a few enhancements, address security issues, and it will also fix several bugs that have affected users.

Google begins tablet version of Chrome OS — A Google mock-up from last year of a Chrome OS tablet is coming to fruition. — Details in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have begun building a tablet version of Chrome OS, its browser-based operating system.

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts — WASHINGTON - The government's color-coded warning system is being replaced with a more specific and informative plan that would offer two levels of alerts — elevated and imminent. — According to a draft Homeland Security Department plan obtained …

Google, Justice Near Deal on ITA Acquisition — WASHINGTON—Google Inc. and the Justice Department are close to agreeing a legal settlement to avert a court challenge to the company's $700 million acquisition of flight-data company ITA Software, according to people familiar with the matter.

New York Times Paywall Cost: More Like $25 Million — Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. insists a $40 million estimate for building New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.'s pay scheme is “vastly wrong”. But that's where the NYTCo chairman stopped in a Q&A at Columbia University earlier this week.

Windows Phone 7 Will Overtake iOS by 2015, Says Gartner — By 2012, nearly 50 percent of the global smartphone market will run Google's Android OS, which by then will be the world's most popular mobile operating system, according to Gartner. Apple's iOS will be the second most popular with 18.9 percent share.

Founders Now Take the Money and Maintain Control — In a small office in San Francisco, electronic music blared as several programmers loomed over two computers. David Morin, the founder of Path, a social network start-up, gave the signal and the company's site and iPhone application went live.

BlackBerry Bold Touch hands-on! — What, you thought we were stopping with our exclusive hands-on with the BlackBerry Touch (Monaco / Monza)? Not at all, we're back at it with the big boy in RIM's 2011 lineup: the BlackBerry Bold Touch. We first scooped this smartphone back in January and we have to say …

500 Startups plans a fund that's all about designers — People in Silicon Valley like to talk about the importance of design, but now incubator and early-stage investment fund 500 Startups is creating a new fund around that idea. — Enrique Allen, the firm's designer and the founder …

How many iPhones did Apple sell last quarter? — Analysts' estimates range from nearly 20 million to less than 13.25 million Apple's second fiscal quarter, which ended March 26, was a tricky one for analysts trying to figure out how many iPhones the company sold.

Microsoft launches Bing for iPad app with voice search — Our friends over at Redmond have surprised us pleasantly with the Bing app for iPhone last year. Today, they've launched an iPad version and it looks awesome. It's the same like the iPhone version only, you know, bigger.

Tencent, De Wolfe among interested buyers for Myspace — De Wolfe and Murdoch in happier times (Photo: Reuters) — Chinese Internet holding company Tencent, Myspace founder Chris De Wolfe and Myspace's current management team are among the 20 odd names kicking the tires at the once might social network …

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